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ArticleAdvances in medical education and practice2023

Utilizing Post-Clerkship Surveys to Optimize Emergency Medicine Program Outcomes in the Match.

Brian Kendall, Kade M Ancell, Ke Tom Xu, James Morris

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Brian KendallDepartment of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-8428-3424
Kade M AncellTexas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Ke Tom XuDepartment of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.
James MorrisDepartment of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX, USA.

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Purpose: The Match for Emergency Medicine residency has presented new challenges over the past 2 years (2022-2023). Use of a post-clerkship survey given to clerkship students could improve outcomes in The Match by helping the program identify its different strengths and weaknesses. Methods: A post-clerkship survey, sent after The Match, was sent to Emergency Medicine bound students who completed our Emergency Medicine clerkship. This data was then collected and analyzed and, in collaboration with our faculty and residents, changes were made to the clerkship and residency program with the intention that these changes would improve our program and therefore our competitiveness in the upcoming cycle of The Match. These changes were analyzed in the subsequent post-clerkship survey. The survey included questions that asked students to reflect on their experiences with various aspects of the program and how these experiences influenced their personal ranking of our program compared to other emergency medicine residency programs they might have interacted with. Results: Results from the initial post-clerkship survey revealed that students found our faculty and residents (55% ranked higher), County hospital (55% ranked higher), and SLOE transparency (64% ranked higher) as the main aspects of our program that led them to rank the program higher. Living in Lubbock, TX was found to be the biggest drawback for students, with 55% ranking our program lower. The 2023 post-clerkship survey revealed that the changes we made to our clerkship and program were effective, with an overall decrease of 10 points in students who ranked our program lower based on "Living in Lubbock, TX". We also were able to keep 4 of our rotators, as opposed to 2 the year before. Lastly, we also did not need to go as far down our rank list in the 2023 cycle of The Match. Conclusion: Using a post-clerkship survey to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of a program through a student's perspective can be an effective tool to help programs in their outcomes from The Match. Further study is necessary to validate these findings.

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